"President Andrew Johnson once said, "If I am to be shot at, I want Gnome Ann to be in the way of the bullet."."

So in case you don't get them, these quotes, in the order of the comic, are parodying:

- The proverb 'Time and tide wait for no man' (And presumably 'No Man Is An Island')

- Two quotes from the Bible

- Don Quixote

- The OG Star Trek series

- The Lord of the Rings